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While it may not be obvious, it certainly is on the radar. Of course, we already have coed in cubbing, many units mixing boys and girls in the various Den levels due to needing leaders and keeping it working, and there have been few issues from what I have seen or read. Granted, some do have separate girl Dens, but usually mixed then for advancement. Of course, we also know that Exploring, Ventures, and Sea Scouts are all coed. So the truth seems obvious to me, and they just are making it more difficult to keep membership in small units. So, on paper girl and boy troops with the sam

That's exactly what I'm trying to game out ahead of time. Huge units have a benefit here even if they're anemic with popcorn (no SE is gonna pull the charter of a 40+ youth troop from a cornerstone CO unless it's horrendously egregious conduct)...but they could go tit-for-tat in other ways. The absurd thing here is that I've been asking registered volunteers about this program for months and NONE of them are logging their hours. Most of these individuals would account for a couple thousand dollars a pop, but since the council is trying to maintain a monopoly without promoting it, t

And that is my general observation as well. Make it easier and stop the subterfuge. Coed with proper YP in serious use. I suspect it would just make it easier to stabilize small units and maybe even advance the overall program considerably. Listen to the youth, not the so called experts that do surveys and studies with bias to begin. Reality is that youth will find their own way if given the opportunities and proper supervision. As a long story I have been reading notes, we need to stop infantilizing young teens and preteens.

In my experience, all of the girls BSA troops in my area are "linked" with a boys troop. As in, they share the same charter org and adult committee. They register as two units: there is a boys scoutmaster and a girls scoutmaster. But mostly the adult leaders cross-register to both troops. At least one of the adult leaders of the girls troop is female. Each troop elects its own SPL and PLC. But they really meet together and plan activities together. They go on the same monthly camping trips, with the boys troop on one side of the campsite and the girls troop on the other. Adults camp in the mi

I'm sure this is the part that got the GSUSA council upset. They profit from the cookie sales- they don't profit from the bracelet sale.

Feb 1, 2019-2024, 5 year anniversary of admitting girls into Scouts BSA. "This February marks five years since the Boy Scouts of America, now called Scouts BSA, first started admitting girls into the BSA program. Since 2019, around 6,000 female scouts have advanced to Eagle. ...Today there are more than 45,000 female scouts in the program across the country." "Girls have done a terrific job and shown that they can rock a 50-mile hike, just as their brothers can," says Kayleen Deatherage, a Scouts BSA National Executive Board (NEB) member. Deatherage leads the board's task force

They get a cut of the ones that they coordinate.

The problem IMHO is that the system is backwards. The councils primary function should be to support the units. It appears the council believes the units should support the council. The units primary function is to support the patrols. The patrols primary function is to support each other.